There are some things in life that you just never want to see. For instance, you don’t want to see a giant truck driving the wrong way down the highway right at you. Luckily, after my heart resumed beating, I realized that it was just being towed and was not, in fact, about to plow […]
Category Archives: Edward
Things I Must Say A Lot
It’s funny to be a parent, because you see yourself reflected back in your kids, sometimes in a more brutally honest way than you were hoping for. All of those things they say and do, they learned those things from someone. And if you are one of their primary caregivers, chances are they learned them […]
My Kids’ First Car Accident
The day hadn’t really started off well anyway. I’d woken up with a tweaked back, barely able to stand, so I had scheduled an emergency chiropractor visit and taken Edward to church with me so that I could work on music sorting and planning, and he could spread toys all over the choir room. It […]
Where’s Your Mother?!
One of the great things about being a stay-at-home-dad is that, when things go wrong, people tend to ignore you and blame the mother. Somehow the general public still cannot wrap their minds around the fact that the father may, in fact, be the one responsible for the terrible behavior that is spewing forth from […]
One Sick, One Not
Perhaps one of the more difficult parenting tasks I have undertaken is the care of one sick child when the other one is feeling fine. You parents with only one child do not have to deal with this, which is why you are big jerks. Nevertheless, I will try to explain to you what you […]
27 Things My Two Year Old Did Yesterday
Wet the my bed Watched weird Canadian cartoons, naked from the waist down Chased the cats Answered every question both ways (“Do you want a banana?” “No. Yes.”) Ran around in a circle for several minutes Dumped an entire bucket of toys over his head Laughed hysterically for unknown reasons Got out his own bowl […]
Locked Out
It started, as so many things do, very gradually. At first it was just a bit of a sticky lock. After a while, it became difficult to get the deadbolt on the front door to open all the way. A tiny bit of it would stick out, even after it had been unlocked. As time […]
The Old Lady Factor: Get Away From My Kid, You Weirdo!
When you are in public with your children, you are going to have to deal with the old lady factor. And by old lady I mean “old enough to be a grandmother” so, like, 40 and up these days. But the old lady factor has nothing to do with your age, and all to do […]
Only Good Things
As I have been thinking about the ethics of blogging about one’s children, I have become keenly aware of the need to say more good things than bad about them. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think I paint a positive picture of them in a general sense, but sometimes I get caught up in […]
Yelling at Strangers
There is a point in every child’s development that lies just between the learning of words and the learning of what words are appropriate in which situation. This two-year-old zone is an exciting place to be, because one never knows which phrases your child may have picked up, and one also never knows at whom […]